Born to Hermann Einstein (a featherbed salesman) and his wife Pauline in Ulm, Germany. Settles into a program of self-education at age 10 and begins reading as much about science as he can.

He took a position at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Princeton, where he remained for the rest of his life. In 1940 Einstein renounced his German citizenship for a second time and became a ...

Einstein loved life — and women. Letters that are now being auctioned at Christie's bear witness to this. Throughout his life, Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a pop star of science. He had his ...

It wasn't until the last decade of Einstein's life, after the bombs had already dropped, the war had ended, and both physicists were at Princeton, that the two came to be "close colleagues and ...